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Air forces

Overview

Today, the nature of defence challenges has changed: air forces must now respond to asymmetric threats. For the past 40 years, Thales has developed and supplied best-in-class systems for combat aircraft. This expertise enables us to help our customers to face tomorrow’s air defence challenges by designing the systems, subcomponents and instruments they need to protect critical assets.

Leading the way in air force defence

We have remained at the cutting edge of airborne defence by leveraging our partnerships with the world’s best military air framers and continually stressing the importance of innovation.

To supply defence ministries with the right tools for flight control, navigation, communications and surveillance, we collaborate with the following industry-leading organisations:

Defence Onboard Electronics

C4ISR

Thales's strong industrial presence and proven capabilities as an equipment supplier, service provider and prime contractor enable the Groupe to design C4ISR systems that best meet its customers’ needs.

Command and Control Centres - Air Operations

Mission and Surveillance Systems

Mission Airborne Solutions based on the most sophisticated techniques in Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance, allow to give to the End User the means to take the right decision at the right time.

Radars and Sensors

Weapon systems & munitions

Thales is the only company in Europe capable of providing armed forces with a full range of solutions from early warning to threat neutralisation, at all level from very short-range systems to extended air defence.